66 and 68 Town Road including 2 Church Street

2 Church Street, Croston, Leyland

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163917
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: 66 and 68 Town Road including 2 Church Street
Statutory Address:: 2 Church Street, Croston, Leyland

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163917
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: 66 and 68 Town Road including 2 Church Street
Statutory Address 1:: 2 Church Street, Croston, Leyland
Statutory Address 2:: 66 and 68 Town Road, Croston, Leyland

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 2 Church Street, Croston, Leyland
Statutory Address:: 66 and 68 Town Road, Croston, Leyland

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:: Croston
National Grid Reference:: SD 48997 18458

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/02/2015

SD 41 NE 8/94

CROSTON, TOWN ROAD, No. 66 and No. 68

(Formerly listed as No. 66, Post Office and No. 68, TOWN ROAD)

17.4.67

GV II

Includes No 2 Church Street. Probably formerly a farmhouse, extended and altered, now 2 shops and house. Various builds, beginning (No. 66) C17 or earlier, with extensions and alterations mostly C18 and early C19. Mostly handmade brick, part roughcast, and some coursed sandstone rubble with quoins; slate roof. No. 66 is 2 bays, 2 storeys, gable to road (right return wall forming corner of Church Street); Post Office and No. 68 are a 3-bay range continued to the left, higher 2 storeys, attached to and partly overlapping No. 66. Right return wall of No. 66 of sandstone with quoins at each end and rounded coping at 1st floor, finished in brick above, has a blocked horizontal rectangular window with remains of a hoodmould at ground floor of the front bay, a blocked square window above, an inserted door and a casement on each floor of the rear bay. The front gable is linked to a gable on the adjoining bay to the left, each gable has a 12-pane sashed window (both belonging to No. 66), and at ground floor here are altered shop windows to No. 66 (with remains of simple triangular brick moulds above), and an early C19 double-fronted shop window to the post office, with pilaster jambs and cornice, the left part carried over the front of the right hand end of No. 68. No. 68 has a central panelled door with round-headed surround, keystone, and fanlight, a 4-pane sash to the left and 2 others at 1st floor. No. 66 has a chimney at the rear gable, No. 68 at the left gable, and there is a large chimney stack on the ridge in line with the gable of the post office, another at the rear wall. Rear: short gabled wing in line with front gable of post office has remains of a very small brick mullion window in the apex with a label; otherwise altered and extended at ground floor. Interior: extensive timber framing in No. 66 includes stopped ovolo-moulded beams in both bays, and post and rail framed partition walls (exposed at 1st floor) with Tudor-arched doorways; at 1st floor a very large chimney or smoke hood, said to have served a forge or similar hearth below.

Listing NGR: SD4899718458

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Legacy System number:: 184346
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.